Thursday, December 8, 2016

Dream Workshop Booklist-Links-Videos


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Creative Dreaming by Patricia Garfield, PhD
The Dream Cards by Strephon Kaplan-Williams
While The Dream Cards were based on many people's major dream symbols and are designed for gaining meaning from your dreams, they also work effectively in helping you find inner wisdom about your own life issues. People use these Cards for daily meditation by choosing at random a Card from anywhere in the deck and using it as a focus for what to expect during that day.
Dream Cycles  by Dusty Bunker (Author)
Dream cycles offers a new and exciting approach to dream interpretation. The premise is that dreams come from an inner source full of symbolism. Using the nine basic cycles in your life that are determined from your birthday, you can open your dreams and read them in the full context of the events in your life.
Dreamwork by Jeremy Taylor, D.Min.
on dreams, myth and social change
Dreaming the Divine: Techniques for Sacred Sleep Paperback – February 8, 2016
We spend (or should spend) eight hours out of every twenty-four sleeping. Sleep is the time for our unconscious to be most active. For those seeking a sacred connection, but unable to let go of their conscious selves in meditation, Sacred Sleep proves a useful and informative book.
Dreams Beyond Dreaming  Jean Campbell
One Sunday morning, when I was four years old, I excitedly said to my family at the breakfast table, "Last night, I flew all the way to the bottom of the stairs, and I didn't even hurt myself."
"Ohh," they laughed. "That was just a dream."
Just a dream, I thought sadly and, taking my cue from them, neglected my dreams for the next twenty years. Fortunately, before I reached thirty, my dreaming self woke me up. I have spent the rest of my life trying to recapture and understand the magic of that early dream, somewhat successfully.
Dreams: Hidden Meanings and Secrets  Paperback – June 1, 1983 by Orion (Author)
Dreams That Come True: Their Psychic and Transforming Powers Mass Market Paperback – December 30, 1989  by David Ryback Ph.D. (Author)
Dreams: Night Language of the Soul  Paperback – May, 1987  by Phoebe McDonald 
Dreams, Symbols, and Psychic Power Mass Market Paperback – October 1, 1990  by Alex Tanous
(Used) Tanous, Alex and Gray, Timothy, Bantam Books, 1990. Your dreams can light the way to positive changes in your life... Have you ever dreamed you were falling...flying...floating...fishing? Have you ever wondered if a particular dream was a warning, a premonition, even an out-of-body experience? Now Dr. Alex Tanous, one of America's most respected psychics, reveals the powerful workshop techniques he's employed to help thousands remember, analyze, and use their dreams to: reveal valuable information confront and conquer repressed feelings raise self-esteem solve personal problems release untapped psychic and spiritual energy reduce stress and susceptibility to disease uncover new reserves of love and courage Fascinating, clear, and easy to follow, Dr. Tanous' methods are illustrated through dream examples that were obtained firsthand in workshops, interviews, and therapy sessions. These dreams are presented in a series of workshop exercises designed to increase your ability to interpret your own dreams. DREAMS ,SYMBOLS & PSYCHIC POWER is an amazing guide to dream exploration that lets you harness the miracle of dreams..to communicate more directly with your subconscious, to free your psychic abilities, and to promote happiness and peace of mind.
Dreams: A Way to Listen to God Paperback – 1978  by Morton Kelsey
Edgar Cayce: The Sleeping Prophet Mass Market Paperback – October 1, 1989
How To Interpret Dreams, Omens & Fortune Telling Signs  by Fred Gettings
We dream always about ourselves, and a dream is really nothing more than a stage presentation in which no costs are spared – the actors and the properties and the theatre with only one person in the audience, the dreamer himself. In the dream, all ones different personalities, possessions, hopes and fears, are symbolized in one way or another in a fictitious setting, and it is the business of dream interpretation to find out what this nightly play – be it comedy, tragedy or farce – means to the dreamer
How to Interpret Dreams, Omens and Fortune Telling Signs Paperback – June 1, 1940  by Fred Gettings
Inner Guides Visions Dreams and Dr. Einstein: A Field Guide to Inner Resources. Paperback – July 16, 2011  by Hal Zina Bennett PhD
Description
Covers spirit guides, dreams as vision quests, divination, shamanism, and more. Interweaves the author's own life experiences, thought-provoking research and quotes, and clearly written self-help material. This book has already won the hearts of thousands of readers. (Reprint originally published by Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press).
Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams by Eugene T. Gendlin
EXCERPT: 1. WHAT COMES TO YOU?
What are your associations in relation to the dream?
What comes to mind as you think about the dream?
Or pick a part of the dream. What comes to you in relation to that?
Living Your Dreams by Gayle Delaney


Your mind works actively every night reviewing what you learned the day before, working out new points of view and solutions to the problems you face.
To fully harvest all that mental labor however, one must learn the language of dreams.  Once you learn to put into words the visual images of your dreams, your waking mind is much quicker at catching on to the parallels in your waking situation.  By example, and through discussion of the Dream Interview Method, Dr. Gayle Delaney will help you get to the very personal, very practical meanings and solutions your dreams offer.
Dr. Delaney does not focus on the paranormal, new age, and dogmatic or superstitious dimensions of dreaming. The focus of the Dream Interview Method is on using the products of our sleeping brain to improve our insight and abilities to assess and solve life’s personal, professional, and creative issues.
Living Your Dreams: The Classic Bestseller on Becoming Your Own Dream Expert Paperback – October 18, 1996  by Gayle M. Delaney
The Modern Witch's DreambookPaperback – April, 1994 by Sara Lyddon Morrison
New Approaches to Dream Interpretation.  FODOR, Nandor.
The Dream and the Underworld Paperback– July 25, 1979  by James Hillman
Hillman wrote this book in the mid-seventies, and it is surprising to me how little effect it seems to have had on the various schools of dream interpretation. Perhaps this is because Hillman's "underworld" is an ambiguous, sometimes frightening place, a place where each psyche is rooted into the Beyond, and where daytime morality has no dominion. According to the author, the underworld and its dreams contribute to the making of Soul, and are not to be used as helps to fix up our daytime life. To do so is an act of exploitation. This clearly is at odds with our culture's fixation on mining one's dreams for images, ideas, and information that can help us be more productive and functional players in the status quo world we inhabit during waking hours.
Hillman carefully develops his ideas through looking at the work of Freud, Jung, and other twentieth century dream workers. He winnows out the wheat from the chaff, and uses the wheat to thrust dream interpretation forward, and farther away from the safe, cozy realm the ego would so much like to stay wrapped up in. One gets the feeling reading this book that safety does not a strong soul make.
Being an inveterate "miner" of dreams myself, I was at first rather resistant to Hillman's thesis. Eventually, though, I came around to his point of view (with reservations), mainly because I realized that dreams and soulwork are very much like art. Just as art should not always be made for any practical "daytime" use, so with our souls and dream images.
However, this opens a question. For thousands of years, shamans have traveled into the underworld to bring back energy for healing individuals and their communities. They act as conduits for energies traveling up from the Otherworld so that this world can be "seeded" and keep evolving. Is this, too, an act of exploitation? I don't think so. But I do think, after reading this book, that we should be aware of, and careful about, how we use the images and teachings that come to us, unbidden, as we sleep.

What I did find both fascinating and helpful was his insistence that most dream analysis is an exercise of the ego.  We tend to impose our "dayworld" preoccupations and interests on our dreams, and this, he suggests, is a violence.  Dreams are not symbolic recapitulations of what goes on in our waking life.  They are underworldly (from the viewpoint of death/the dead) commentaries on or critiques of our waking life.  The question is not, "How can understanding my dreams help me to achieve my goals?" so much as, "What does my dream-self think of my goals?"

"Therapy, or analysis, is not only something that analysts do to patients; it is a process that goes on intermittently in our individual soul-searching, our attempts at understanding our complexities, the critical attacks, prescriptions, and encouragements we give ourselves. We are all in therapy all the time insofar as we are involved in soul-making." 
- James Hillman, Re-visioning Psychology
The Dream Book: Symbols for Self Understanding Paperback – June 1, 2001 
DREAMS REFLECT YOUR WAKING LIFE.
BETTY'S "THE DREAM BOOK: SYMBOLS FOR SELF UNDERSTANDING" HELPS YOU DECIPHER YOUR VITAL MESSAGES 
The Dream Workbook: Discover the Knowledge and Power Hidden in Your Dreams  by Jill Morris
Psychoanalyst Jill Morris offers case studies and detailed guidelines to help the reader utilize "dreamwork" to solve problems, enhance creativity, resolve inner conflicts, learn new skills, and receive intensely pleasurable experiences.
Recognize and interpret specific dream images and symbols
Keep a dream journal and record the progress of self-discovery
Uncover the hidden meanings of dreams
Turn nightmares into sources of power
Share dreams with a partner for enhanced intimacy and understanding

From the Inside Flap
Dreams are the ultimate personal creation -- a vast storehouse of insight, information, and power. In this hands-on workbook, psychoanalyst Jill Morris draws on fundamental historical, scientific, and psychological theories to offer detailed instructions on how you can open the door to your inner self and make the most of your dreams. You'll learn how to:
-- Draw on dreams to solve problems, enhance creativity, resolve inner conflicts, master new skills, and discover intensely pleasurable experiences.
-- Recognize and interpret specific dream images and symbols.
-- Keep a dream journal and record the progress of self-discovery.
-- Use free association to uncover hidden meanings in your dreams.
-- Turn nightmares into sources of power, confront your worst fears, and overcome them.
-- Share your dreams with a partner for enhanced intimacy and understanding.
-- Control the form and content of your dreams, make them end happily, and make them come true. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Wisdom of the Heart: Working With Women's Dreams Paperback – January, 1998

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Living Your Dreams, Online Workshops Intensive


Greetings,
We hope that you and your family are doing well.
I am reaching out to you to let you know that I have decided to forego our upcoming I Ching Workshop Series for December 18, 2016 thru Jan. 22, 2016.

Instead what I will be offering two comprehensive Dream Workshop Intensive. Each will last 2 hours so bring your snacks and something to drink.  I'm scheduling 2 so we can take into account time zones, etc.

If this goes well, and folks would like to continue, then we can schedule another Living Your Dreams Workshop Intensive.

If you write your dreams down, bring your dream journal, if not, write down at least one that you remember and bring that one.

Dreams are the soul's steps into the multidimensional realms of reality, without our physicality, which cannot do it as easily, while we are awake. We meet dream friends, partners, animals, other worlds and sometimes enemies in these many dimensions.

This workshop will facilitate an awareness of what dreams are really telling us. Feel free to come out and share them, especially those that repeat and those that you just cannot seem to understand.

This workshop will focus on techniques to remember and understand dreams.
We will discuss OBE (Out of Body Experiences) and Recurring Dreams.


NOTEDREAMS ARE MIRRORS. DREAM WORKSHOPS ARE SAFE SPACE.
BE RESPECTFUL.

Living Your Dreams Workshop
Date: December 18, 2016
Time: 2-4 PM
Time: 7-9PM
Location:Online  www.zoom.us
Love Offering: $20 via PayPal (nanabaakan@gmail.com)


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